Elif Batuman

ELIF BATUMAN was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. She graduated from Harvard, and received her doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University. She is currently the writer-in-residence at Koc University, Istanbul. Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, n+1, Harper's and the Guardian, and she has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. This is her first book.

ELIF BATUMAN was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. She graduated from Harvard, and received her doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University. She is currently the writer-in-residence at Koc University, Istanbul. Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, n+1, Harper's and the Guardian, and she has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. This is her first book. See less

Elif Batuman book reviews

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

A sense of the absurd:

Batuman shares this with the big D. She's a very funny woman and a good writer. She doesn't seem to think much of contemporary fiction and in that sense seems a bit blindered, but I look forward ... Read More

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